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5 things wrong with Illinois holding 30% of U.S. pension bond debt

JANUARY 20, 2022 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

Amendment 1 would guarantee Illinois’ sky-high debt, taxes would rise faster

JANUARY 14, 2022 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

5 things wrong with Illinois holding 30% of US pension bond debt

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

Stop the budget bleeding

APRIL 7, 2021 | CITY JOURNAL

Illinois’ mountain of debt will be Madigan’s fiscal legacy

JANUARY 13, 2021 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

Illinois’ proposed ‘fair tax’ gets its just deserts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020 | NATIONAL REVIEW

Speaker Madigan’s corruption nurtured Illinois’ pension debt

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 | REALCLEAR POLITICS

Madigan’s fiscal legacy: How the longest-serving state house speaker built Illinois’ mountain of debt

AUGUST 27, 2020 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

Californians dream that only the rich will pay

AUGUST 27, 2020 | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Pritzker wrongly claims an Illinois budget surplus ‘if not for coronavirus’

MAY 1, 2020 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

Why Congress should reject Illinois’ $44 billion request

APRIL 24, 2020 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

Illinois must act now to guard against COVID-19 financial fallout

MARCH 18, 2020 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

Pritzker’s accounting gimmicks can’t fix pension crisis, but real reform can

FEBRUARY 21, 2020 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

Chicago’s 2020 budget proposal was never truly balanced

NOVEMBER 27, 2019 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

5 broken tax promises show why Illinois voters distrust Pritzker’s ‘fair tax’

NOVEMBER 5, 2019 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

Illinois public services being cut to pay unsustainable pension cost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

Budget solutions 2020: 5-year plan to balance Illinois’ budget, pay off debt and cut taxes

FEBRUARY 6, 2019 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel endorsing pension amendment to Illinois constitution

DECEMBER 12, 2018 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

CTBA pension plan: Unsound, unfair and unaffordable

NOVEMBER 27, 2018 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

Crowding out: Chicago pension fund demands intercept of state money

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

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